Bianca Murillo

Education

Ph.D. History, University of California, Santa Barbara

B.A. History, Law & Society, University of California, Santa Barbara

Research and Teaching

Professor Murillo specializes in the history of modern Africa and has conducted archival and oral history research in the U.S., U.K., Europe, and parts of West Africa. Her research and teaching interests include the history of global capitalism, comparative consumer cultures, and critical race and gender studies. Her research has been published in Africa, Enterprise & Society, and Gender & History and last year she was awarded the prestigious 2013-2014 Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. Her book, Conditional Sales: Global Commerce and the Making of an African Consumer Society is forthcoming with Ohio University Press as part of its New African Histories series.